Do you support the use of drones for policing? A number a countries have started to implement drones as part of the police operational equipment. Do you support this move or will it be too dangerous for civilians and air traffic?
There are drones that can and do certainly fly at similar altitudes. Your numbers for commercial planes seem quite spot on, I always look at the kilometer version which is slightly above 10km so yeah, about 35k feet. Now most drones fly far below this but there are ones, such as the MQ-9 Reaper, that are even designed to "loiter" around at very high altitudes.I don't think there's an issue with air traffic, since drones don't fly in the same air space.
Drones might go as high as 11,000 feet. Commercial planes are flying 35,000 feet high.
If anyone has better grasp of the numbers, please feel free to jump in here. But there's a big difference, right?
What kind of applications do you mean?I definitely see drones as a good replacement for helicopters.
Privacy is definitely an issue in this kind of situation. I imagine this will come into the spotlight sometime within the next few years; I am talking about on the same level of online security. It may be touched on in articles, but it has not hit social networks to a high degree just yet.I don't think there's an issue with air traffic, since drones don't fly in the same air space.
Drones might go as high as 11,000 feet. Commercial planes are flying 35,000 feet high.
If anyone has better grasp of the numbers, please feel free to jump in here. But there's a big difference, right?
The issue with drones is the same with Online Security. Privacy, right?
When are you abusing the necessary use of technology, not to catch the bad guys, but to spy on people?
I don't think that there is much the ordinary person can do though...
Well as far as I know, generally police use helicopters mainly to have "eyes on the sky". To see things from another perspective and to follow suspects etc. A drone would be much more suitable for these kind of scenarios as they could hover high up without even being noticed while still relaying high quality video for extended periods of time.What kind of applications do you mean?
I would imagine that drones will get smaller, and smaller, and smaller, to the point where you can't hardly see them...
Sadly, I can also envision civil drones being used for terrorist attacks....